Mike Levin

Mike Levin

@mikelevin.org

Proud husband and dad. Serving California's 49th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Environmental attorney, clean energy advocate, and SoCal native.

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Trump told a Georgia crowd that his own advisers begged him not to brag about oil profits while families are hurting at the pump. His answer? "I don't give a damn." Then he said, "We're making a frickin fortune." So who is "we"?

The fortune is flowing to the oil industry, cashing in on Trump’s war with Iran while you foot the bill. You don't have to be a Democrat to be angry. 73% of likely voters disapprove of how he's handled gas prices. Everyone knows what a tank of gas costs.

We’ve never seen corruption like this. Under Trump, a whole pardon industry has grown up around the White House, with wealthy criminals paying well-connected insiders for a shot at clemency. Some have paid up to a million dollars. This case blows past all of them.

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Habba signed the deal while she was still a federal prosecutor. A few weeks after Habba started, Trump gave Herrera a full pardon.

No matter your party, we can all agree that justice should never be for sale. That’s why I helped start the End Corruption Caucus in Congress, and why I’m fighting to bring the pardon process out into the open. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

We’ve never seen corruption like this. Under Trump, a whole pardon industry has grown up around the White House, with wealthy criminals paying well-connected insiders for a shot at clemency. Some have paid up to a million dollars. This case blows past all of them.

A billionaire banker named Julio Herrera Velutini was charged with trying to bribe Puerto Rico’s governor to fire the official investigating his bank. Herrera wanted his record wiped clean, so he went looking for a pardon from Trump.

Herrera’s daughter gave $3.5 million to a group supporting President Trump. Then the Herrera family offered Alina Habba, the President’s former personal lawyer, a job guaranteeing her more than $50 million over four years, at a company with no public profile.

The new Vanity Fair story on Jared Kushner is extraordinary. According to Matthew Cole's upcoming book, foreign intelligence officials watched Kushner access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars tied to Gulf governments while he served as Trump’s senior advisor.

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The founders worried about this very thing and wrote the Emoluments Clause because they feared foreign powers would try to buy influence.

The new Vanity Fair story on Jared Kushner is extraordinary. According to Matthew Cole's upcoming book, foreign intelligence officials watched Kushner access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars tied to Gulf governments while he served as Trump’s senior advisor.

Money from that account went to a warlord, a mercenary and a former hit man. We don't yet know what's true here. If foreign governments were quietly funding a senior official, Congress and the public need to know. If the allegations are false, a transparent investigation should clear the air.

Harry Truman left the White House with nothing but a $113 a month Army pension.  Donald Trump made at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in office.

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Meanwhile, working families are scraping by to cover gas, groceries and electric bills that keep climbing. They haven't seen a dime of Trump's windfall. They're the ones paying for it.

If you're fed up with a president who treats the White House like a personal ATM while Americans struggle to hold on, fight back by voting on November 3rd. #TrumpsCrimesOnYourDime

Harry Truman left the White House with nothing but a $113 a month Army pension.  Donald Trump made at least $2.2 billion in his first year back in office.

He pulled in $1.4 billion from crypto alone in 2025. Companies backed by his sons have landed billions in Pentagon contracts. And he made thousands of stock trades in the first three months of this year, including in companies his own administration regulates. The grift never stops.

This New York Times report is stunning. About one in six American households is now behind on utility bills. In Oklahoma, a 58-year-old grandmother who depends on an oxygen machine spent the summer living in a single room with blankets hung over the doorways, trying to keep her bill down.

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Nobody should have to choose between keeping the lights on and buying groceries. Bringing costs down means ending the war, rolling back these tariffs, and passing real relief for working families.

This New York Times report is stunning. About one in six American households is now behind on utility bills. In Oklahoma, a 58-year-old grandmother who depends on an oxygen machine spent the summer living in a single room with blankets hung over the doorways, trying to keep her bill down.

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Trump promised again and again on the campaign trail that he would cut your electricity bill in half. Instead, residential electricity rates have skyrocketed.

An unauthorized war with Iran has sent energy prices soaring, and tariffs have driven up the cost of the steel and equipment utilities need to keep the grid running. Families end up paying for all of it.

This New York Times report is stunning. About one in six American households is now behind on utility bills. In Oklahoma, a 58-year-old grandmother who depends on an oxygen machine spent the summer living in a single room with blankets hung over the doorways, trying to keep her bill down.

Grateful to spend another birthday surrounded by dear family and friends. Thank you all for the kind messages yesterday. They meant more than you know.

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That's exactly why I don't take corporate PAC money, why I don't trade individual stocks, and why I helped launch the End Corruption Caucus. Republicans and Democrats alike should demand full disclosure of every ballroom donor.

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Most Americans agree on a simple rule. If you're in charge of regulating a company, you shouldn't be cashing its checks or buying its stock. According to The Washington Post, Nvidia gave $25 million to President Trump's White House ballroom, tied for the biggest gift on the list.

Most Americans agree on a simple rule. If you're in charge of regulating a company, you shouldn't be cashing its checks or buying its stock. According to The Washington Post, Nvidia gave $25 million to President Trump's White House ballroom, tied for the biggest gift on the list.

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That's exactly why I don't take corporate PAC money, why I don't trade individual stocks, and why I helped launch the End Corruption Caucus. Republicans and Democrats alike should demand full disclosure of every ballroom donor.

Most Americans agree on a simple rule. If you're in charge of regulating a company, you shouldn't be cashing its checks or buying its stock. According to The Washington Post, Nvidia gave $25 million to President Trump's White House ballroom, tied for the biggest gift on the list.

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Meanwhile, the president's own disclosures show he's bought millions of dollars in Nvidia stock this year. And earlier this month, he awarded Nvidia's CEO the National Medal of Science.

So when this administration decides who gets to sell chips where, who is it working for? The American people, or the people writing checks to the president?

Most Americans agree on a simple rule. If you're in charge of regulating a company, you shouldn't be cashing its checks or buying its stock. According to The Washington Post, Nvidia gave $25 million to President Trump's White House ballroom, tied for the biggest gift on the list.

Nvidia needs this administration's approval to sell its chips overseas. It made the donation about three months after the White House cleared it to sell advanced chips to China, and it asked to keep its name hidden.

If you want to understand how completely this White House has abandoned America's role in the world, read this New York Times piece. Earlier this month, President Trump waived sanctions so Russia could sell more diesel. He got nothing in return.

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Putin is a murderous thug. Americans of both parties have known that for a long time. Standing with democracies fighting for their lives is part of who we are.

If you want to understand how completely this White House has abandoned America's role in the world, read this New York Times piece. Earlier this month, President Trump waived sanctions so Russia could sell more diesel. He got nothing in return.

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Every family in my district wants lower fuel prices. I do too. There's a better way to get there. Pass my Energy Bills Relief Act, end the war in Iran that sent fuel costs soaring, and produce more clean energy right here at home.

If you want to understand how completely this White House has abandoned America's role in the world, read this New York Times piece. Earlier this month, President Trump waived sanctions so Russia could sell more diesel. He got nothing in return.

No ceasefire. No pause in the bombing. Days later, Russia fired 39 ballistic missiles at Ukraine, the biggest barrage of the war, and 600,000 people in Kyiv lost power with winter closing in.

Daily reminder that Trump and Republican leadership are spending billions of your tax dollars on military operations against Iran that Congress never authorized,

and funding the president’s own vanity projects, while doing nothing to lower your grocery bill or make your life more affordable. This November, you can help put an end to it.

The Washington Post just obtained the internal donor list for President Trump’s ballroom, and there’s one big red flag I wasn’t expecting. It involves Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted in 2022 on bribery charges tied to Puerto Rico’s former governor.

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The other ballroom donor info shows $333 million steered into a White House account the president directly controls, with at least $77 million coming from donors who asked to stay hidden.

The Washington Post just obtained the internal donor list for President Trump’s ballroom, and there’s one big red flag I wasn’t expecting. It involves Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted in 2022 on bribery charges tied to Puerto Rico’s former governor.

After the 2024 election, his daughter gave $3.5 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. His charges were reduced to a misdemeanor in August 2025.

The next month she pledged $2.5 million to the ballroom and paid the first $835,000 in October. In January, Trump pardoned him. That’s just the latest revelation.

Our intelligence agencies concluded that Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in 2020, just as they found he had in 2016.

This is the same president who was impeached for withholding nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine while pressing Zelensky to investigate his political rival.

Now, after a phone call with Putin, his Treasury Department has lifted sanctions on Russian diesel through April. Truckers, farmers, and families paying more than $6 a gallon deserve real relief. They shouldn’t have to get it by easing pressure on the man waging war against Ukraine.